The book, The Glass Castle, written by Jeanette Walls, discusses the struggles of the author’s family’s life from her childhood to her adulthood. The Walls lived a very simple life due to being impoverished. The parents Rose Mary and Rex usually find a way to look at things in a positive way, as they use their unorthodox parenting methods to attempt to give their four children a good life. The beginning of the book takes place in an array of different places as the family is always doing the skedaddle from the IRS and other issues. The children enjoy this as they see it as an adventure. The Walls do eventually settle down in Battle Mountain, a very small desert town. Rex is able to find a job that has the family just making ends meat. After a while Rex gets bored and has the urge to move once again so the family stays in the desert, but moves to Rose Mary’s deceased mothers house for a bit. Once again the Walls move. This time is different however because the Walls move to Rex’s hometown of Welch in West
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Rex’s mom is a wicked individual, which creates a domino effect on the Walls living in her basement. Rex begins to drink, leading to him and Rose Mary fighting, which lead to many more misfortunes. The Walls eventually save enough money to buy a small and dilapidated house for $700 at the end of the most impoverished street in Welch. The house was falling apart, and Rex was never home to fix it because he was busy drinking at bars. The children slept in cardboard boxes and ate very little. Not one of the Walls was prepared to live in Welch, but it was a last resort for the family. The children are often bullied in school, but Jeanette knows that “when [they] were kids, [they]… stood a better chance if [they] took on the world together”(250). Jeanette Brian and Lori needed each other at times that were such in Welch. Without each other they would not have been able to eventually thrive with many failures along the
Rex’s mom is a wicked individual, which creates a domino effect on the Walls living in her basement. Rex begins to drink, leading to him and Rose Mary fighting, which lead to many more misfortunes. The Walls eventually save enough money to buy a small and dilapidated house for $700 at the end of the most impoverished street in Welch. The house was falling apart, and Rex was never home to fix it because he was busy drinking at bars. The children slept in cardboard boxes and ate very little. Not one of the Walls was prepared to live in Welch, but it was a last resort for the family. The children are often bullied in school, but Jeanette knows that “when [they] were kids, [they]… stood a better chance if [they] took on the world together”(250). Jeanette Brian and Lori needed each other at times that were such in Welch. Without each other they would not have been able to eventually thrive with many failures along the